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Author: parazyd@dyne.org
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To: devuan developers internal list
CC: Merlijn, Ivaylo Dimitrov
Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] Building derivative distros on the Devuan Jenkins CI
On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, parazyd@??? wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, Daniel Reurich wrote:
>
> > > The only thing that worries me is what happens when there is a lot of
> > > traffic and if `apt update` will seem broken if an update is done while
> > > a merge is in progress.
> >
> > build to a spool and copy/rsync that to a the deployment location -
> > preferably a remote mirror. Remember it the keyring it is signed with
> > needs to be in devuan-keyring.
>
> Since rsyncing isn't atomic, Merlijn suggested a symlink trick which
> would definitely help reducing the downtime(?) and simplify this.


Apologies, I've forgot to include the URL of the method that does this:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5093/how-does-one-atomically-change-a-symlink-to-a-directory-in-busybox/6786#6786

> > > For maemo we were told we will be using the Devuan CI, not hosting our
> > > own. I am not sure if this is related to us?
> >
> > We should discuss this...
>
> This thread was started for this reason - so please give us some insight,
> as for now it seems very few things are moving.


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